HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THUR
MANCHESTER CITY AND
AND STOKE WIN
WIN BOTH MATCHES
ONLY SENIOR TEAMS TO TAKE FOUR POINTS
IN OPENING FIXTURES OF HOME FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
VISITING TEAMS SCORE SEVERAL VICTORIES YESTERDAY
London, Sept. 4.
Manchester City, the winners of the English Foot- ball Association Challenge Cup two years ago, arid Stoke City, winners of the Second Division Champion ship three years ago, are the only two.. First Division teams to have won both their matches on the opening days of the English Football season this year.
Manchester City, one of the best teams playing in English football to dny, is considered one of the clubs most likely to depose the Arsenal if the Londoners are to be deposed this year. Auninkt West Bromwich, un
the other formidable combination,
· Lancashire side on Saturday won by the only goni scored and to-day the City bent Liverpost at Anfield Ita
by two clear goals.
The little men from Stoke brought
off a creditable feat when they went
INCLINED
TOWARDS LINKS
to Stamford Bridge and there scort BABE RUTH GIVES
five goals against Chelsen who netted three times. Stoke, on Saturday, won from Leeds at Victoria Ground by three gonls to one.
Following the defeat of Sunder- land, last year's runners-up by the Araraal on Saturday, the Yorkshire wide went to The Hawthorns to-day And there heat West Bromwich Albion by three goal to one.. Another away tenta to take full points to-day was Anton Vila who bent Middlesbrough At Ayroiʊme Park.
Portsmouth was the only Viral Division Club to win on home ground, besting Everlon by two goals to nii. West Bromwich Albion is the only Senior side to have failed to secure a point in either fixture.
Blackpool, Manchester United and Newcastle, all playing before their own supporters won their matches in the Second Division, these being the only Second Division games down for decision to-day.
In the two Third Divisions visiting teams had à fairly successful time.
in Watford and Oldham win-j
their matches on foreign mil "while Queen's Park, Gillingham and
Walsall each took one point.
Crystal Palace suffered the heaviest defont of the day when the slide went lown to Southend, one of the re- -elected teams, by seven goals to our
at The Stadiu,
Blackpool, Southampton, and Tot- tenham Hotspurs are the only Second Division teams to have
both matches while Doncaster and West Bum are the only pointless sides.
won
There is no Southern Section Third Division team which has won both matches while clubs which have not yet won a point are Luton and Tor- In the Northern Section qua). Wrexham, Chester and Stockport. are the teams, with full points while Ratherhun. Accrington, Galeshead are which have lost both theclubs *uatches.
Today's results follow:
FIRST DIVISION
Chelsen
Leeds
Liverpool
Middleabro
3. Stoke
5
0 Birmingham
0
0 Man'ter C.
Z
1
Aston Villa
2
Portsmouth 2 Everton
West Brom. 1 Sunderland
SECOND DIVISION
Blackpool 2 Norwich Man'ter U. 3 Charlton Newcastle 3 Barnsley
THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH) Bournemouth 2 Luton
UP DIAMONDS
GOLF IS NOW HIS PASTIME
New York, Aug. 30, Babe Ruth, baseball's greatest drawing, attraction of the past twenty-one years, is now proving that he is still one of the public's favourites.
out.
This year he was given an right release from organized base ball because be was considered all through as a baseball player and as an attraction. Ruth had other ideas
about being thro while not play
During the
SHANGHAI INTERPORT INVALUABLE CALL-OVER FOR
NOEL HAMMOND
A TENNIS TREAT
SPARKLING DISPLAY IN SHANGHAI
BY JAPANESE PLAYERS
Shanghai, Sept. 3. When a set extends over 24 games with the pace of the first game as fast and furious as the last; when each player puts his best into each stroke and directs cach ball with a mind trained to out-place his opponent; and when the players concerned are the
two first rankers of Japan in opposition to the two first string men of Shanghai, it is not un- reasonable to claim that such an exhibition of tennis must be accorded a class by itself.
was the magnificent exhibe tion Shanghai Lawn Tennis As
ing baseball, the "Babe" had tried his hand at golf. Through his co- idination and power, he developed into a good golfur, and at times pusled scores on par with some of the well-
When krown golfers.
baseball could him, find no room for
clubx ralf friendly renched out
Such and in the. hand, first tournament Ruth played, many thousand people braved a hard rain stora to hi
make a creditnhle score of 81 in a driving rain.
So in the popularity of Ruth
great in that the papers were all praising him for-bis mediocre score, while falling to pay any attention to a man who
under scored 71
the samo cir- cumstances and In the same tourna ment.
The Babe is quite enthusiastic about golf. After that first tournament he suld that it was like hitting a home run every time a golfer teed unt. He also made the statement that there are few golfers who cannot hit a golf ball farther than he ever hit A baseball in his best years.
Golf hins for some time been draw- ing the crowds away from baseball parks. Possibly the influence of Babe Ruth will draw more people as stimulate patlle as well AWAY opinion about this recreation. Many 0 young people do not play golf be 3 cause they feel that it is "an old man's game." But now that their hero has taken it up so whole-heartedly, their gulf-playing views may very likely change.
100
1
Brighton 1 Queen's P. R. 1 Bristol C. 1 Newport 1 Watford
Notts County 3 Gillingham
2
Exeter
3
Southend
7 Crystal Pal.
Swindon
4 Torquay
1
1
1
Reuter.
THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)
Darlington 1 Walsall
Hartlepools
Wrexham
0 Oldham
5 Mansfield
score.
Ruth intends to practise diligently every day to attempt to lower his If he can do this he will enter more netively all the tournaments possible. He claims that he has not had sufficient time to derate practising but that he will be able to. And more time in the future, what with his baseball career well behind him.
to
Babe Ruth may prove that he is greater than golf just as he was greater than the game he was king of for twenty-one years.--United Presa.
SEE HONGKONG
FROM THE AIR
TEAM
SWIMMERS FOR HONGKONG
SELECTIONS MADE BY NORTHERNERS
REPRESENTATIVE COMBINATION
At n meeting of the Shanghai Amateur Swimming Association,
held last night, the following were Relected to represent Shanghai in the forthcoming interport swim- ming meet against Hongkong in the Colony on September 10, 20 and 21:-
Noel Hammond and Archic Logan (British). Eddie Welz. Tommy Britton, B Humber (American), Jappy Grilk (Nether.
ARCHIE LOGAN
OUR SOCCER FORECASTS
lands), Stan Starkovsky (Russian), Home Teams Favoured
Sle Bok-kien (Chinese) and Wol frange Wagner and Hans
| (Gorman).
Park
The selected men have been chosen for the following eventa:
50 yards free style:-Hammond and Britton.
100 yards free alyle:-Hanı mond and Logan,
To Win
The following is a forecast of Saturday's matches in the Home football Leagues:
FIRST DIVISION
220 yards free style:-Ham- BIRMINGHAM v. Arsenal
BRENTFORD v. Huddersfield mond and Logan.
v. Bolton
440 yards free #tle:-Logan DERBY and A. N. Other.
CRIMSBY
V.
Chelsea Blackburn V.
880 yards free styles ---Grilk and Leeds Sie Bok-klen,
Liverpool 100 yards back stroke:Ham-PORTSMOUTH `v. mond and Wagner.
W Everton
Aston Villa Middlesbro* Wolves
V.
TENNIS RECORDS
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Almanack while the international competitions, including the Davis- Cup and Wightman Cup Competi- tions, are given due prominence with full results of past contents,
The renaissance of British lawn
Ronter.
CHAMPIONSHIP ATHLETICS
RECORD BREAKING
PERFORMANCES
tennis last year, is emphasised by WOMEN the Editor in an article "Honours for the Homeland" In which he remarks that the victory of the Davis Cup team in the same year na both Men's singles titles went to Great Britain marked the opening of a new epoch.
RUNNERS
(By ACHILLES). ·
With weather conditions ideal, women athletes were soon on the record-breaking path at their A.A.A. championship meeting at the White City Stadium.
In the first race Mika Hiscock
London Olympiades) established
H. S. Scrivener, the well-known lawn tennis authority traces the progress of lawn tennis during the st Afty years "From William R. ta William T.," that is from the Y. MANCHES-time of William Renshaw to the
time of Wilium Tilden.
new British record for 100 The modern developments of the netres in a runaway victory in her game in Japan are treated in an beat. Her time lowered the pre- Interesting article by Jiro Itoh, the vious best held jointly by herself the Japanese Monthly and M. Menzies by 3-10sec, and SHEFFIELD U. Magazine "Lawn Tennis," who was only 1-10 outside world re-
100 yards breast stroke:-Wetz PRESTON
WEDNESDAY v. and Wagner.
Relay (four men each 50 yards): Sunderland Hammond, Britton, Starkovsky
Stoke WEST BROM. v. and Logan.
(free Medley Relay: Britton
SECOND DIVISION style), Welz (breast), Haminond (bick).
Diving: Humber and Grilk.
Logan:
rociution's court yesterday afternoon Water polo team (tentative): when the two Japanese Davis Cupauer: Grük, Park: players of 1934 and 1936, Yamagish! And Nishimura,
who were passing Welz, Hammond, Starkovsky. through this port for Japan, clashed with Lewis D. Carson and W. A. II. Duff, defeating them by 13-11 in the first set, being forced to andon the second, owing to the falling light, with the score standing at 5-2 in their Invour. In all the above match called i for 31 games without a rest.
Previous to the above exhibition, the two Davis Cup players opposed | each other in one set of singles, Jíro
Yamagishi-defeating his colleague
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Hideo Nishimura by G-4. This was followed by a further singles exhibi- tion when Yamagishi defeated Lewis Carson in a magnificent game by 6-2. The first doubles exhibition was given
Japanese students, by the two Kinoshita and M. Tuskaila, who have just completed a tour of Java, with Lum
M. Benavitch and opposition. Play in this match was very oven, the Shanghai couple taking the first set by 0-4 while the students took the next, Gil
*1
the
Baseball
Stopped
By Rain
AMERICAN GAMESTM POSTPONED
3 NATIONAL MATCHES
V.
V.
Huli
V.
TER C.
v. Charlton v. Barnsley
Bradford BURNLEY Bury Doncaster FULHAM LEICESTER Manchester U. v. Bradford C. PORT VALE v. Plymouth Swansea
'SPURS
v. Southampton
-Editor of
describes the development as re-
catered
N
Mina lacock did not reprodure
BLACKPOOL markable as 1020, there were no cord,
other organisations' than one moli- tary club and one university that this time in the final, though sho for lawn tennis as the experienced little dimeulty in people understand it to-day.
carrying off the champlonship for There is a glowing tribute to the third successive year. the late Jiro Satoh who was loat overboard whilst on his way to Europe with the Japanese Davis Cup team last year.
v. NORWICH v. Newcastle WEST HAM v. Notts Forrest THIRD DIVISION (SOUTH) ALDERSHOT v. Brighton Bournemouth v. Northampton Bristol C. v. Bristol R Cardiff
v. READING COVENTRY v. Newport Gillingham v. PALACE
LUTON
Millwall
v.. Southend
v, Watford
NOTTS COUNTY v. Orient SWINDON' v. Exeter
She also revealed her beat quali- final; in ties in the 200 metres which she recaptured the title lost last year to Miss Halstond. She The popular "Bijou Biographies" had only inches to spare in a grip- Section is made more interest. ping finish, but her time was only. ing than evor with the in-1-10sec. outside British record. clusion of the names of many more Miss Halstead did not defend
of the rising players in addition to her 200 metres Litle. She prefer- those who have already made them red to concentrate her energies ou selves known through their particl- the 800 metres, and in this race pation in International competi- she created a new British record, Ition.
2 7-10sec. better than Gladys Lunn's previous best,
CRICKET TOUR
TORQUAY. Queen's P.R. Nawab Of Pataudi May
THIRD DIVISION (NORTH)
New York, Sept. 4. Rain prevented all the Ameri- can Baseball matches from being Approximately 1,500 tennis en- thusiasts were present to witness the played to-day although the wea- play. The standard of tennis in the ther did not interfere with the concluding match of the exhibition National Championship fixtures. between Yamagishi und Nishimura The New York Giants and the Crewe
ACCRINGTON▾. Rochdale CHESTER. v. New Brigh-
FIELD
v. York
ton
and Lewis Carson and W. A. H. Duff, St. Louis Cardinals, the two top DARLINGTON v. Hartlepools was of the first order. No drive, teams of the National League, GATESHEAD v. Carlisle no velley, half-volley or smash was
xecuted judgment. Seldom
is such a treat leaving the positions unaltered,
v. Mansfield
v. Rotherham
v. LINCOLN
without precision and won their
fixturos to-day, thus
HALIFAX
OLDHAM
Southport
follow:
STOCKPORT
v. Barrow
NATIONAL LEAGUE-
TRANMERE
v. Walsall
WREXHAM
R. H. E.
Philadelphin.. Chicago
2.
8 0
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
8
B
1
In court play and tactles put before Results of to-day's matches kcal tenis” enthusiasta, To watch the Japanese rush forward from a terrific service and take their posi tions by the net, placing with
tare and thorouglincas, lending up fron ench service to magnlücent volleys. smashing the ball through their opponents' defence to take a point, Was a treat indeed.
And to
(Galan scored two home runs ABERDEEN waten Shanghai's best, returning the most for the Cubs). dificult of shots, not yielding an theh, and smashing their own way Lark for the print, was to sense
a feeling of pride in the high quality
of the local representatives.
DEXTEROUS PLACING
In this exhibition each player made his service throughout 22 games. On several occasions the Japanese had the local players on the run, and with dexterous placing took the point by smashing to the former after having skilfully
v. Chester
(FIRST DIVISION)
HAMILTON
Albion
CLYDE
New York
G 11
2
Cincinnati
4
12 2
HEARTS
3
B
1
G 12 1.
Boston
St. Louis
(Mowry and Berger each scored home run for the Braves).
-Router
H. Clayton, the Clapton half- Carson and back, will play for Bromley next Duff in a position of extremo dia-season. advantage. On the other hand this
play was not entirely on the side of
the
Japanese, for the local men were after losing three points by serving able to retaliate in a like manner more two doubles and driving the ball out times than one . ·
of court the score stood. at love/40. Volley play was arr outstanding Careful play brought matters up to
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v. Motherwell
v. Partick v. Arbroath KILMARNOCK v. Dunfermline QUEEN'S PARK v. Hibernian Queen 0'5th. Y. CELTIC RANGERS v. Airdrie ST. JOHNSTONE v. Dundee
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branch of play, and at times, with of the Japanese, Carson netted Championship will be played off back-hand stroke, sent the ball sky tricky ball to give the Davis Cup to-day when A. M. Holland meets high to give himself
time.
players game and Clever play at times on the part| Without a rest the o
second set was R. Duncan on the Club de Recreio of the Japanese gave the two Shang-started but owing to the poor light green. kai men no alternativo but to In the match was abandoned. In this Immediately after the match is back, and with smashing as their sot the Japanese tool the first three decided the draw will be made for strong point the visitors managed to games in succession while the local the semi-final rounds while dates collect many games in this manner. players replied by taking the third and greens will also be fixed for
With the score standing at 11-all and the sixth bringing the score up these matches. in the first set and with the servies to 4/2. A grim battle was fought
in the hands of Yamagishi, the Japan for the seventh same which went to Gillingham have signed Watson, ese were able to take a hard fought the Japanese after, se?"rai dauces, the
love game, thus bringing the score up score thus standing at 5-2 on cessa- an inside forward from Northamp to 12-11. - Duff's service followed and tion of play—N. C. D. News..."
ton.
Captain India
Vithout a doubt Nellie Halstead is an amazing athlete-she won the Englial cross-country cham- plonship earlier in the year. ́*
Miss Webb met with mlafortune In the 80 metres, hurdles final. After returning the fastest heat- winning time of 12sec. she crashed Bombay, August 11.
into the fifth burdla in the final The Indian Cricket Board of when possessing
slight lead. Control, to-day, approved the pro She fell heavily, and E. Green was gramme for the England tour of able to run home a comfortable the Indian cricketers in 1936, winner and so carry off the title Although no decision has been for the fifth year in succession. made it is expected that the
Nawab of Pataudi, who has played lian cricketers shortly to tour cricket for England, will captain India.
the team. He is also expected to A Selection Committee, consis captain India in the unoffelal ting of the Nawab of Pataudi, Tests against the
of K. S. Dulcepsinhji, and Doctor Patiala's private team of Austra Kanga, was appointed for the tour.
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